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the u.s. and european countries are on track. >> host: it's almost as if there's a couple of different books in one book. there is your story of the decline of the west, your story of the rise of the east and the lines are going to cross. >> guest: i think this is you can argue there's an absolute part for short talking about the west and its isolation and issues going out there and going in an amazing time and other european economies have done the unthinkable moving hundreds of millions of people out of poverty so this is going to naturally be able to question as well. >> host: let's talk about what is going wrong in the west. >> guest: first of all its important that in terms of the context of my work i talk about the unintended consequences, things that sound like a good intentions but actually yield bad outcomes and what i have done is to focus on the three key ingredients economists focus on as the drivers of economic growth and there is a capital that is basically money, labor that is t
the u.s. and european countries are on track. >> host: it's almost as if there's a couple of different books in one book. there is your story of the decline of the west, your story of the rise of the east and the lines are going to cross. >> guest: i think this is you can argue there's an absolute part for short talking about the west and its isolation and issues going out there and going in an amazing time and other european economies have done the unthinkable moving hundreds of...
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where it is in the u.s. is likely have completely split. the u.s. used to be more free-market oriented, but we are the ones who beat the so-called stimulus and quality defeasing and the europeans are the ones being more frugal. what happened? >> guest: this is a big question and i think we will have to see who wins next year. my personal preference is if you can't afford it, but that you're in expenditure especially if you have issues around revenue, raising revenue. people look around the united states and i've seen a number of papers that are to 45% of americans don't even pay federal taxes already. so this is an unsustainable situation. the prices of the inflation and where the oil is right now, those types of pressures are going to mean something has to give, and the less prepared the policy is in the united states in terms of having to, you know, tighten the belt, the more vulnerable the country is going to be to the outcome and places like greece. we don't know what's going to happen in europe. i will take britain as an example. they had a rea
where it is in the u.s. is likely have completely split. the u.s. used to be more free-market oriented, but we are the ones who beat the so-called stimulus and quality defeasing and the europeans are the ones being more frugal. what happened? >> guest: this is a big question and i think we will have to see who wins next year. my personal preference is if you can't afford it, but that you're in expenditure especially if you have issues around revenue, raising revenue. people look around...
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the u.s. and european countries are back on track. >> host: it's like a couple different books in one book. there's the story of the decline of the west, the rise of the east, and the basic premise of the lines are going to cross. >> guest: you can argue there's an absolute part for sure talking about the west in isolation and what the issues are going on there, and then, of course, we live in an amazing time of china and other emerging economies have done the unthinkable, moving hundreds of thousands of people out of poverty. of course, that's answering the ire relative question as well which is what i've done in the book. >> host: let's start by talking about what's going wrong in the west. >> guest: sure. first of all, i think it's really important in terms of context of my work, entalk about unintended consequences, good intentions, but yields bad outcomes. what i've done in the book is focus on the three key ingredients. those are capital, basically money, labor, which is basically the wo
the u.s. and european countries are back on track. >> host: it's like a couple different books in one book. there's the story of the decline of the west, the rise of the east, and the basic premise of the lines are going to cross. >> guest: you can argue there's an absolute part for sure talking about the west in isolation and what the issues are going on there, and then, of course, we live in an amazing time of china and other emerging economies have done the unthinkable, moving...
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to be fair, they don't have it in the u.s. either. but we don't have an u.k. so, therefore, you have to take as gordon brown did and as i have now, sort of one off measures to deal with that situation. interesting, if you look at the u.s., the president of the united states is talk about removing some of the. so i don't think we are unique in the world when we look at this industry at the moment and the returns is getting. >> the in line in the most important daily newspaper, this morning was the cancellation by their investment. i wanted to look specifically at gas. center to have us, or have issued a statement was has all of our north sea projects including those to give the go ahead recent what they believe and doesn't plan to be still are being reevaluated. projects that a viable will be canceled or they also make the point of economics from oil and gas are completely different in that oil has a single world price whereas gas has a multiplicity of prices, a much more diffuse market. they also claim that they'll be there for a much their impact on the domes
to be fair, they don't have it in the u.s. either. but we don't have an u.k. so, therefore, you have to take as gordon brown did and as i have now, sort of one off measures to deal with that situation. interesting, if you look at the u.s., the president of the united states is talk about removing some of the. so i don't think we are unique in the world when we look at this industry at the moment and the returns is getting. >> the in line in the most important daily newspaper, this morning...
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isn't it a curious thing were praising your constitution would not draw the u.s. was a reaction against when paul revere browsed the nation with his pride of the british coming. actually no, he didn't. does anyone know what he actually showed it? what he actually said was the regular trout. can anyone tell me what it would have been pretty bizarre for him to have shouted the british are coming? it would have been a pretty unusual thing. even in massachusetts they were all british. it would've been a very, very strange thing. it would not have occurred to americans, patriots or loyalists that great was the foreign countries. but the way in which the story of paul revere has been enriched by historians i think is a very telling one. it depends on editing out, disregarding a lot of the arguments, which your country of leaders for using that time. they never saw themselves as revolutionary. they sell themselves as conservatives. all they were asking for in their own minds with the freedoms they assumed they had been born with. the real revolution to them for those in
isn't it a curious thing were praising your constitution would not draw the u.s. was a reaction against when paul revere browsed the nation with his pride of the british coming. actually no, he didn't. does anyone know what he actually showed it? what he actually said was the regular trout. can anyone tell me what it would have been pretty bizarre for him to have shouted the british are coming? it would have been a pretty unusual thing. even in massachusetts they were all british. it would've...
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we at u.s. citizenship and immigration services and all of us throughout the department of homeland security are inspired by secretary napolitano's leadership and her commitment to the character of our country as a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws. i would like to take this opportunity to add to the secretary's remarks and highlight a few aspects of e-verify self-check, an initiative that we have executed. self-check provides a great service of employers and employees alike and we'll have the continue enhancement of an already successful e-verify program. self-check is a tool for lawful works. it provides them with a fast and secure access to their employment eligibility information. and gives them the opportunity to ensure that their information is accurate and up-to-date before they seek employment. we've made every effort to ensure that using self-check is as intuitive and straightforward as possible. if a user of self-check receives a mismatch, the program provides clear instruction
we at u.s. citizenship and immigration services and all of us throughout the department of homeland security are inspired by secretary napolitano's leadership and her commitment to the character of our country as a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws. i would like to take this opportunity to add to the secretary's remarks and highlight a few aspects of e-verify self-check, an initiative that we have executed. self-check provides a great service of employers and employees alike and we'll...
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and also give that many of these are u.s. based companies, is there a role for u.s. policy to promote the freedom to connect? >> one more from this side of the room. the way in the back. >> thank you. my name is john wooden. thank you all for your really excellent recitation. jackie, i was interested in your comment about more bottom-up development. others wonder if you could operationalize that with some examples. and also to ask whether the model of cooperatives and particular worker cooperatives can play a constructive role here? thank you. >> okay, let's come back to the panel, let him respond to this set of questions and then i think would probably have time for at least one more round in addition to that one. i think perhaps the most efficient way to do this is just simpler to start at the right and work our way across and let people select a question they would choose to enter. if any remain unanswered at the end you have to catch them at coffee after the meeting is over. >> so i will start with the doctor's comments, but maybe take it from low bit of a differ
and also give that many of these are u.s. based companies, is there a role for u.s. policy to promote the freedom to connect? >> one more from this side of the room. the way in the back. >> thank you. my name is john wooden. thank you all for your really excellent recitation. jackie, i was interested in your comment about more bottom-up development. others wonder if you could operationalize that with some examples. and also to ask whether the model of cooperatives and particular...
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the u.s., the worst blizzards of the decades. but despite all of that, but despite of all that, their economies grew in the fourth quarter. and while our growth has worsened, theirs have improved. the german economy -- the chancellor -- the chancellor should just calm down just a little bit, mr. deputy speaker. the german economy is forecast to grow more strongly than it was last year. so is the united states. growth in the world economy has been revised up. but which is the major country downgrading its growth forecast, the united kingdom. mr. deputy speaker, it's not the wrong type of snow to blame. it's the wrong type of chancellor. it's the wrong type of chancellor in the wrong type of government with the wrong priorities for britain. mr. deputy speaker, mr. deputy speaker -- >> courtesy should be shown but can i say to everybody, the public also wants to hear what the opposition has got to say. if the cabinet members do not want to listen, then please leave the chair. some people may agre
the u.s., the worst blizzards of the decades. but despite all of that, but despite of all that, their economies grew in the fourth quarter. and while our growth has worsened, theirs have improved. the german economy -- the chancellor -- the chancellor should just calm down just a little bit, mr. deputy speaker. the german economy is forecast to grow more strongly than it was last year. so is the united states. growth in the world economy has been revised up. but which is the major country...
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the u.s. to congressmen and people on the left and right and journalists and think tanks and ordinary citizens and the same conclusion kept leaping out at me again and again. most americans do not realize how lucky they are you know, the political institution defined the country in many cases unique and almost all cases on usual. i'm talking about term limits, the recall mechanism, the citizens' initiative and referendum and states' rights and localism, open primaries, totally unique feature but ones that make the largest leaders answerable to the rest of us, and above all i'm talking about the direct election of almost everybody. it's human nature to take for granted that which is familiar to us, but it's these institutions growing organically growing out of the constitution that has served to keep your government more and your people free. sometimes i say this and they say there are cultural differences. we are naturally liberal people. we got away from the monarchies and the collapse is int
the u.s. to congressmen and people on the left and right and journalists and think tanks and ordinary citizens and the same conclusion kept leaping out at me again and again. most americans do not realize how lucky they are you know, the political institution defined the country in many cases unique and almost all cases on usual. i'm talking about term limits, the recall mechanism, the citizens' initiative and referendum and states' rights and localism, open primaries, totally unique feature...
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all u.s. reactor have the spent pool cool fueled by fewer and less reviable systems than are provided for the react you're complete at all u.s. reactors it's housed in less robust containment than the reactor core. more radiated fuel that's less will protected and less well defended is a an undo hazard. upgrade the guidelines how to address an emergency and how to address an emergency and provide operator training for spent fuel pool problems. currently the u.s. spent fuel strategy is to nearly fill the pools to capacity, and then transfer fuel into dry cask storage. this keeps the spent fuel pools to capacity, maintaining the risk as high as possibly achievable. a better strategy would be to reduce the pools to only the fuel discharged in the last five years. that generates lower heat loads which gives worker more time to restore cool organize the water inventory in the spent fuel pool, and if irradiated pool did become damaged, the radio active cloud would be smaller. following the accident
all u.s. reactor have the spent pool cool fueled by fewer and less reviable systems than are provided for the react you're complete at all u.s. reactors it's housed in less robust containment than the reactor core. more radiated fuel that's less will protected and less well defended is a an undo hazard. upgrade the guidelines how to address an emergency and how to address an emergency and provide operator training for spent fuel pool problems. currently the u.s. spent fuel strategy is to nearly...
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and the four systems such as the u.s. system of government which has a national security advisor to the president for the french system of government that has a specific advisor on foreign security policy to the president. it provides a ready counterpart at a very senior official level for those country. >> how has the nsc improved security thinking and crisis management? >> well, it give us an opportunity to have wider contact to get information from the intelligence from across the intelligence services in real time. as, for example, we've gone through what's been happening in north africa and the middle east. it's enabled us to get a constant feed of information it's enabled us to cross-reference pretty widely. and i think it has enabled us to have a breadth that perhaps wouldn't be available in any one department. and very much part of the point of peter rickets a contact single point. it's extremely useful for us to have a point of reference. somebody that we can talk to, somebody we can commission and work from if w
and the four systems such as the u.s. system of government which has a national security advisor to the president for the french system of government that has a specific advisor on foreign security policy to the president. it provides a ready counterpart at a very senior official level for those country. >> how has the nsc improved security thinking and crisis management? >> well, it give us an opportunity to have wider contact to get information from the intelligence from across...
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time of the peace negotiations of the end of the war and which benjamin franklin was one of the key u.s. negotiators and over the course of many months the five peace negotiators are meeting in paris and hashing out the terms of the independence of the united states and there are lots of sticking points along the way that there was until they get to the one of last one and the kind of fall of 1782i guess it is, and the sticking point concerns whether the u.s. is going to be made responsible for giving compensation to loyalist whose property is the confiscated during the war, and on this point most of the other american negotiators are okay with it adams and john jay that when gen franklin will not give in on this point and he says if you grant compensation i'm not going to sign the treaty. we have to keep on fighting the war. so if you want the reverse, you know, and it anticipates his own leader access of sort of property related vengeance. he writes william out of his will leader and the two rarely ever meet again. and i think they do better and what i think about most is getting into
time of the peace negotiations of the end of the war and which benjamin franklin was one of the key u.s. negotiators and over the course of many months the five peace negotiators are meeting in paris and hashing out the terms of the independence of the united states and there are lots of sticking points along the way that there was until they get to the one of last one and the kind of fall of 1782i guess it is, and the sticking point concerns whether the u.s. is going to be made responsible for...
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we would like to see u.s. industry deepen and extend it's already well established patterns of cooperation, and programs of cooperation with european industrial counterparts on missile defense, including with regard to interceptors and censors. after all, 28 allies have committed to nato missile defense and many want to expand their national capabilitys as we proceed. all are limited principally only by resources. but in this time of austerity with scarce defense spending, we can best advance that goal through multinational solutions. and in that regard, missile defense represents a real opportunity to bolster a multinational cooperation with our most credible and capable and trusted security partners. that takes me then to the 5th task, the military dimension. nato will require, ideally as soon as the end of this year, a concept of operations that pulls all of the operational aspects of missile defense into a cohesive whole. together with rules of engage ment, defendant asset list and other nato command and c
we would like to see u.s. industry deepen and extend it's already well established patterns of cooperation, and programs of cooperation with european industrial counterparts on missile defense, including with regard to interceptors and censors. after all, 28 allies have committed to nato missile defense and many want to expand their national capabilitys as we proceed. all are limited principally only by resources. but in this time of austerity with scarce defense spending, we can best advance...
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and the sticking point concerns whether the u.s. is going to be made responsible for giving compensation to loyalists his property has been confiscated during the war. most of the other american negotiators are okay, but benjamin franklin will not give in on this point. he says, if you grant compensation i'm not going to sign the treaty. we have to keep fighting the war. and it anticipates his later act of property related. the two rarely ever meet again. at think these family divides do matter, and i do think what i think about most is that getting into the personalities and into the individual experience is important for explaining how history has operated. >> he said that this is the first book about the loyalist exile, refugee what to you feel should be the second book? not necessarily by you, but somebody else. someone else picks up from where you left off, what would you like to see the next book on this topic tonight. >> that is a great question. i think -- well, one thing that needs to be written up in a better form is what
and the sticking point concerns whether the u.s. is going to be made responsible for giving compensation to loyalists his property has been confiscated during the war. most of the other american negotiators are okay, but benjamin franklin will not give in on this point. he says, if you grant compensation i'm not going to sign the treaty. we have to keep fighting the war. and it anticipates his later act of property related. the two rarely ever meet again. at think these family divides do...
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time of the peace negotiations at the end of the war and which benjamin franklin was one of the key u.s. negotiators. over the course of many months, the five peace negotiators are meeting in paris and hashing out all of the terms of the independence of the united states, and lots and lots of sticking points along the way that they resolve all of them until they get to one last one and the kind of fall of 1782i guess it is, and the sticking point concerns whether the u.s. is going to be made responsible for getting the compensation to loyalists whose property has been confiscated during the war. and on this point, you know, most of the other american negotiators are okay with it on adams and john but benjamin franklin will not give in on this point, and he says if you grant compensation, not going to sign the treaty. we have to keep on fighting the war. so if you want the reverse -- it anticipates his own leader acted sort of property related tensions. he largely rights will get out of the war leader and again they rarely ever meet again so i think the family to fight does matter and it
time of the peace negotiations at the end of the war and which benjamin franklin was one of the key u.s. negotiators. over the course of many months, the five peace negotiators are meeting in paris and hashing out all of the terms of the independence of the united states, and lots and lots of sticking points along the way that they resolve all of them until they get to one last one and the kind of fall of 1782i guess it is, and the sticking point concerns whether the u.s. is going to be made...
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the u.s. green building council. but we did is we bought engineers, contractors, architects there to explain about what green technology is. it is not painting a wall green or something like that. it deals with the energy. deals with the air quality, deals with the water. it deals with what you are using inside, the products you are using inside and everything going on with the building, saving energy cost. in turn we planted over 7 million square feet of green roofs. the first green roof is on city hall. we are the first city to establish beehives in public buildings and public parks. we have the finest beekeepers in illinois. it is really interesting because they lake effect is really interesting and what we are doing in the parks and on top of the green roofs. we have over 7 million square feet of green roofs in the city of chicago, the largest in the world and we are very proud of that. then we established -- we committed over 1500 new acres in the city of chicago, seeking land and open sp
the u.s. green building council. but we did is we bought engineers, contractors, architects there to explain about what green technology is. it is not painting a wall green or something like that. it deals with the energy. deals with the air quality, deals with the water. it deals with what you are using inside, the products you are using inside and everything going on with the building, saving energy cost. in turn we planted over 7 million square feet of green roofs. the first green roof is on...
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but he did befriend a couple of american women who were -- who were wives working in the u.s. embassy in nairobi at the time. and for all his faults obama, sr., was a very charming man and he could charm the ladies. he clearly impressed he's women not only with his ambition and his determination but intelligence. and so it's actually through private meetings he's actually able to secure a place in hawaii and he actually flew quite independently of oboya's airlift with american women from the american embassy who actually funded his place and his air fare. you talk about the selma speech and, you know, president obama is a consummate politician and he gave this great speech, rousing speech in selma in which he referred his father came over from this great airlift in which he used it to somehow claim part of the camelot connection. and kennedy wasn't elected until the following year. he made an error. and he acknowledged the error immediately. his campaign team actually made public just a few days after selma that actually that was an error and, in fact, it wasn't correct. so he
but he did befriend a couple of american women who were -- who were wives working in the u.s. embassy in nairobi at the time. and for all his faults obama, sr., was a very charming man and he could charm the ladies. he clearly impressed he's women not only with his ambition and his determination but intelligence. and so it's actually through private meetings he's actually able to secure a place in hawaii and he actually flew quite independently of oboya's airlift with american women from the...
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what was the significance of alexander hamilton's plan to exchange u.s. debt for state that? >> guest: profoundly important. this went into effect. all of the unrest in the states was in part a response to the taxation of the 1780s where the states were trying to retire their revolutionary war debt by taxes on land, a multiple of what they had been before and the people were very rested but hamilton proposed a brilliant idea, that all the state debts would become a natural death. national debt. he would issue bondss on the united states. a 4% rather than 6%. and didn't have to pay the principal we believe. all you had to pay was the interest. you could do that on the revenue that was coming and on the imports plus some excise taxes and the unfortunate run on whiskey. if basically what he did was to relieve a component of their budget which was the majority what we were raising money for. when the state and loggerhead to pay off their revolutionary war debt they no longer had to impose these taxes and the country became much more peaceful. >> host: next call from john in dalla
what was the significance of alexander hamilton's plan to exchange u.s. debt for state that? >> guest: profoundly important. this went into effect. all of the unrest in the states was in part a response to the taxation of the 1780s where the states were trying to retire their revolutionary war debt by taxes on land, a multiple of what they had been before and the people were very rested but hamilton proposed a brilliant idea, that all the state debts would become a natural death. national...
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nationwide, according to the oecd, u.s. companies invest over $370 billion in research and development each year. in the pharmaceutical industry, which is also important to my home state, experts estimate each new drug requires an initial investment of between $800 million and $2 billion in critical basic research. innovation then is absolutely essential to the continued growth and competitiveness of our nation. our founding fathers recognized that investment in innovation will not occur without a system of patent rights to allow inventors to reap the fruits of their labor, and they placed with the congress the authority to provide for the issuance of these patent rights. in our constitution, in article 1, section 8, clause 8, it states that congress shall have the power to promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries. however complicated applied sciences might have been in 1836 when congress first established the foreru
nationwide, according to the oecd, u.s. companies invest over $370 billion in research and development each year. in the pharmaceutical industry, which is also important to my home state, experts estimate each new drug requires an initial investment of between $800 million and $2 billion in critical basic research. innovation then is absolutely essential to the continued growth and competitiveness of our nation. our founding fathers recognized that investment in innovation will not occur...
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i use that in my high school u.s. history classes. >> guest: that's wonderful. >> host: and this tweet is from a middle school history teacher. it seems it is not possible to determine original intent. your thoughts, please, and that's from chris. >> guest: well, depends on what you mean by original intent. as i've said earlier, scalia said he is not interested in original intent, that is that he's not interested in what people meant to say which is very difficult to determine. but in what they say in the meaning of the words of a given statute. i think, i think that it is useful to look, for jurists to look at what either the drafters or the ratifiers said about given provisions of the constitution. there you can, i think, find information that is of use. there is no original intent, there is no original understanding of the constitution as a whole, but usually the questions are much more specific. and you can find some information, but i see no reason to think that we are bound to understand those or to continue the
i use that in my high school u.s. history classes. >> guest: that's wonderful. >> host: and this tweet is from a middle school history teacher. it seems it is not possible to determine original intent. your thoughts, please, and that's from chris. >> guest: well, depends on what you mean by original intent. as i've said earlier, scalia said he is not interested in original intent, that is that he's not interested in what people meant to say which is very difficult to...
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but he did befriend a couple of american women who were i think the lives of people working in the u.s. embassy and nairobi at the time. there was no doubt obama senior was a very, very charming man. he charmed the ways. he clearly impressed this comment on with his ambitions and his conviction but his intelligence. so it's through private engagements that he was able to secure a place in hawaii. and he actually flew light independently to avoid the airlift to hawaii, with women, american women in nairobi who actually funded his place and airfare. you talked about the thelma speech, and president obama's is a constant politician. he gave a great speech, in which he referred that his grandfather came is great airlift details are used to somehow claim part of the camelot connection with the kennedys. you're right that that kennedy was elected into the following year. he made an error. and he acknowledged the air. his campaign team made public just a few days after selma that that was an era. and that the president was a crack. he did correct himself even though he was against looking to
but he did befriend a couple of american women who were i think the lives of people working in the u.s. embassy and nairobi at the time. there was no doubt obama senior was a very, very charming man. he charmed the ways. he clearly impressed this comment on with his ambitions and his conviction but his intelligence. so it's through private engagements that he was able to secure a place in hawaii. and he actually flew light independently to avoid the airlift to hawaii, with women, american women...
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and so i think without the u.s. it won't work. the u.s. has the peculiar possibility, perhaps more than anyone else that we can think of at the moment. perhaps working here with china to bring islamabad further along the path because it has to become. the afghans are critical and it is that nexus in my view. i can't believe the american tradition of always wanting to solve every problem and seeing itself as the irreplaceable sparkplug that it won't start there. the proposal is not to improve pakistani-u.s. relations per se, but my own view is that i cannot imagine anything that would make a greater positive difference in pakistani, u.s. relations was a process that led to some reasonable and acceptable solution to afghanistan. as difficult as we all see that now. in fact, one further comment. nine months ago we saw the process being entirely improbable. we now see after conversations that it is probable and indeed possible. now we see the negotiations and the agreements that have to be reached as entirely improbable if not extremely diffic
and so i think without the u.s. it won't work. the u.s. has the peculiar possibility, perhaps more than anyone else that we can think of at the moment. perhaps working here with china to bring islamabad further along the path because it has to become. the afghans are critical and it is that nexus in my view. i can't believe the american tradition of always wanting to solve every problem and seeing itself as the irreplaceable sparkplug that it won't start there. the proposal is not to improve...
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with u.s. comptroller general jean dodaro. it pinpointed 34 areas from defense and job training to social services and safety for federal agencies have redundant programs. this is two hours and ten minutes. >> good morning. the committee meeting will come to order. >> as is the new tradition of this committee, we will begin by reading the oversight mission statement. we exist to secure to fundamental principles. first, americans have a right to know their money washington spends and takes is well spent and second, americans deserve an efficient, effective government that works for them. our duty on the oversight and government reform committee is to protect these rights. our solemn responsibility is to hold government accountable to tax payers because taxpayers have a right to know what they get from their government. we will work tigers tirelessly with citizen watchdogs to deliver the facts to the american people and bring genuine reform to the federal bureaucracy. this is the mission of the oversight and government reform co
with u.s. comptroller general jean dodaro. it pinpointed 34 areas from defense and job training to social services and safety for federal agencies have redundant programs. this is two hours and ten minutes. >> good morning. the committee meeting will come to order. >> as is the new tradition of this committee, we will begin by reading the oversight mission statement. we exist to secure to fundamental principles. first, americans have a right to know their money washington spends and...
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i believe that u.s. administrations, successive administrations -- democratic and republican -- have made a big mistake by giving iran no assets to jeopardize. if united states had been willing to allow iran to have pipelines back in the 1990s, if united states had been willing to allow conoco to take that deal with iran back in the 1990s, i don't think we would have the hostile relationship we have with iran today. so should we continue this pattern because of the nuclear issue? if we want to end the russian monopoly, if we want central asia to be prosperous, i think we do have to end this, this policy of blocking iran from having pipelines, trying to discourage transit trade. you know, the late richard holbrooke was so proud of the fact that he'd gotten a transit agreement that goes from afghanistan through pakistan to india. well, there should be routes that go from iran to pakistan to india. it's in the everybody's interests. and i would refer people to fred starr at johns hopkins who's written exten
i believe that u.s. administrations, successive administrations -- democratic and republican -- have made a big mistake by giving iran no assets to jeopardize. if united states had been willing to allow iran to have pipelines back in the 1990s, if united states had been willing to allow conoco to take that deal with iran back in the 1990s, i don't think we would have the hostile relationship we have with iran today. so should we continue this pattern because of the nuclear issue? if we want to...
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maybe the u.s. and uk would play a part. i think people who advocate armed humanitarian intervention need to think quite widely about the kind of coalition that would be put together. >> yes, you had a question in the back. >> i'm maria, i'm a postgraduate student at the african studies. i've been very much following what's been happening in the past month, being from the middle east myself as well, and of course, it's very interesting. and my question is on something that i've been thinking about is the definition of how al-jazeera is defining the professionalism, so to say. the western ethics of journalism, and i put western between two quotations. i wanted to know your upon about how al-jazeera is kind of playing with the idea of distance, the emotional distance. it's not like any other channel. when you watch specific, you can use egypt and libya and tunisia, and i you feel like you are part of the news. al-jazeera has redefined the concept of coverage in the last events. and the other question is what do you think about
maybe the u.s. and uk would play a part. i think people who advocate armed humanitarian intervention need to think quite widely about the kind of coalition that would be put together. >> yes, you had a question in the back. >> i'm maria, i'm a postgraduate student at the african studies. i've been very much following what's been happening in the past month, being from the middle east myself as well, and of course, it's very interesting. and my question is on something that i've been...